Editor’s note: Adrian Clouatre spoke about his wife’s detention in the video above from June 23, when she was still being held. BATON ROUGE, La. — A wife of a Marine Corps veteran and mother of two was released from ICE custody on Monday after being detained in May during what she says she thought was…
How a Marine veteran turned to a carousel to conquer his demons – CBS News Watch CBS News When retired Marine Cpl. Scott Harrison was stationed at U.S. Marine outpost Con Thien during the Vietnam War at the age of just 19, it was a music box sent by his sister that brought him hope…
Nederland, Colorado — During the height of the Vietnam War, being stationed at U.S. Marine outpost Con Thien was like a death sentence. “It just seemed like a matter of time for everybody,” retired Marine Cpl. Scott Harrison told CBS News. Harrison, then just 19 years old, says he got through those dark days, thanks…
You’ve probably seen pictures of the mob which stormed the American Embassy in Saigon desperate to find a way out in the final hours of the Vietnam War. But maybe you haven’t heard the radio transmissions of the American pilots who pulled off the largest helicopter evacuation in history. I know I hadn’t, until we…
December 30, 1977 would mark a profound moment in history, and in the heart of a Cleveland resident serving in the United States Marine Corps at the time. At 20 years old, Corporal Rick Roderick was stationed at a post in Warsaw, Poland with nine other soldiers. They’d gotten word earlier in December that President…